Gilbert Highet - Works

Works

Highet wrote voluminously. He is remembered today for:

  • An Outline of Homer (1935)
  • The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949)
  • The Art of Teaching (1950)
  • Man's Unconquerable Mind (1954)
  • Juvenal the Satirist: A Study (1954)
  • The Anatomy of Satire (1962)
  • The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976)
  • Another solution (1951) one of Highet's few fictional pieces, published in Harper's Magazine.

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